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thank you for being with us. also still with us is the founder and ceo of lavabit, ladar levison. he is with his lawyer. as you listen to the story of our guest, talk about what you received, what that caused you to do? >> i got a personal visit from fbi agents in my offices in 2004 and delivered meet a letter demanding that i hand over a lot of information about one of the clients of the company. it caused me great concern because the first thing that shocked me was that this was not a court order. this was a letter from the fbi signed by an attorney. it seemed to me that it was not a legal order, it seemed clearly not constitution on its face. the fbi had not gone to court, had not proven probable cause before a judge, and the other problem with the letter was that i could never tell any person that i have received a letter, which obviously precluded me from talking to a lawyer or to anyone about it. i was quite afraid to disobey the letter. after i took a bit of time and thought about it, i thought, we always have the right to speak to an attorney, so i spoke to my private atto
thank you for being with us. also still with us is the founder and ceo of lavabit, ladar levison. he is with his lawyer. as you listen to the story of our guest, talk about what you received, what that caused you to do? >> i got a personal visit from fbi agents in my offices in 2004 and delivered meet a letter demanding that i hand over a lot of information about one of the clients of the company. it caused me great concern because the first thing that shocked me was that this was not a...
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i do not want us to sound tough, i want us to sound smart. that is the problem. when folks like general hayden step in, you question them, make it offended and talk about their patriotism, talk about doing whatever is necessary to keep the country safe. i do, too, but it is important to step back and the valley with that. that is what oversight is about. -- evaluating that. is this the best approach to this situation? americans save in the best and smartest way possible. ofo not think a bunch trumped up but she's no is the best way to do it. machismo is the best way to do it. it leads to people believing that they do not care about national security. the response that you get in some of those communities -- and these are patriotic americans and go to work every day to keep americans safe -- but i am troubled about the response to those expressing concerns, and to treat them as a threat equal to allocate a. al-qaeda. you called the critics nihilists and activists. jennifer hoelzer, thank you for being with us. former chief of staff for democratic center of oregon
i do not want us to sound tough, i want us to sound smart. that is the problem. when folks like general hayden step in, you question them, make it offended and talk about their patriotism, talk about doing whatever is necessary to keep the country safe. i do, too, but it is important to step back and the valley with that. that is what oversight is about. -- evaluating that. is this the best approach to this situation? americans save in the best and smartest way possible. ofo not think a bunch...
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they didn't do that with us. in some ways it is reflective of underlying challenges we have had with russia lately. >> president obama also responded to the growing controversy over the wide ranging nsa surveillance programs that edward snowden has revealed. >> a lot of these programs were put in place before i came in. i had some skepticism and i think we should have healthy skepticism about what government is doing. i had the programs reviewed and putting additional safeguards to make sure there is federal court oversight as well as congressional oversight, that there is no spying on americans. we don't have a domestic spying program. what we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or e-mail address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat. >> edward snowden's father says he believes president clinton will continue to stand firm in the face of pressure from the obama administration to hand --r his son whom the name president vladimir putin will continue to stand firm in t
they didn't do that with us. in some ways it is reflective of underlying challenges we have had with russia lately. >> president obama also responded to the growing controversy over the wide ranging nsa surveillance programs that edward snowden has revealed. >> a lot of these programs were put in place before i came in. i had some skepticism and i think we should have healthy skepticism about what government is doing. i had the programs reviewed and putting additional safeguards to...
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use these words to obscure what is going on. the fact is, these laws allow the government to listen in on americans phone calls and to read americans e-mails in an extraordinary number of circumstances, and the government has not been forthcoming about that authority and are not being forthcoming now and they suggest these violations are minimal. these are thousands of violations every year and each violation could affect hundreds or even thousands of americans, but we still don't have the basic facts. >> and the significance of the , 202,02 -- the error instead of monitoring egypt, which is 20, what does that mean? >> that means thousands of calls and easy were swept up into the nsa database when you're supposed to be targeting egypt abroad. >> did they get purged? >> we don't know enough about that story. there is not enough transparency. the public debate now is incredible and was instigated by whistleblowers, leaks. but the fact that we had to wait for those leaks to have this conversation is problematic. >> and the signific
use these words to obscure what is going on. the fact is, these laws allow the government to listen in on americans phone calls and to read americans e-mails in an extraordinary number of circumstances, and the government has not been forthcoming about that authority and are not being forthcoming now and they suggest these violations are minimal. these are thousands of violations every year and each violation could affect hundreds or even thousands of americans, but we still don't have the...